The Spring Festival is coming soon, and farmers have the habit of buying New Year goods during the Spring Festival. I remember when I was a child, the Spring Festival was the happiest time. The rural markets were extremely lively, with various flower-drum operas, acrobatics, and gongs and drums. The adults carried baskets to the market to buy oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, while the children looked eagerly at the firecracker stalls. Now that life is better, everyone is not so active in buying New Year goods. Every day is like celebrating the New Year. Sometimes, At the rural market, some old farmers said, "Pigs are seven, dogs are eight, and sheep are in the middle." What does this mean?
Everyone who lives in rural areas knows that in the past, every household raised pigs, which were the main source of expenses for farmers throughout the year. After the Spring Festival, piglets can grow to two to three hundred pounds by the end of the year. Daily Feeding some grass, leftovers, etc., and "killing pigs" at the end of the year to celebrate the New Year is even more of a rural custom. Four or five young men hold down a pig, bleed it, remove its hair, and cut it for sale. It is full of New Year flavor, and sometimes it is also killed Sheep New Year.
If you want to butcher a pig, you usually go to a house in the village that specializes in butchering pigs. But when they are slaughtering pigs, they will talk about how much meat a pig can produce, such as how much meat a 300-pound pig can produce. Of course, some people are also very good at calculating how high the rate can be. Otherwise, if you sell meat and don’t measure it according to cost, you will definitely lose money. For example, the pig 7 also refers to the pork rate of pigs. According to According to old farmers, pork can produce 70% meat. For example, if a 300-jin pig is 70% meat, it will be about 200 kilograms. Of course, this is mainly based on breed. We are talking about native pigs raised in rural areas.
Secondly, the dog 8 we are talking about also refers to the meat yield rate of meat dogs. Generally, old people think that the pork rate of meat dogs is about 80%. According to the old man, when the dog is growing, The meat on the body is relatively firm, so the meat yield rate is higher. However, judging from these data, it is mainly some native dogs in rural areas. If it is a breed of meat dog, the meat yield rate is even higher. The other is mutton. What does this sheep pairing mean? This sheep pairing also means that the pork rate of mutton is much lower, but the meat yield rate of mutton is much lower. From the perspective of other livestock, the meat yield rate of sheep is still relatively low. Everyone who raises sheep knows that the meat yield rate of sheep is around 40 to 50, and some are even lower.
To sum up, as the old people in the countryside say, 'seven pigs, eight dogs, and eight sheep', When farmers raise livestock for a long time, they find out the approximate meat yield that can be sold, so they can control the price and maximize profits during the purchase, slaughter and sales.